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How To Set Up a Windows machine for web development or to write blogs in blog.sadsumo.com

These are the steps needed to set up a Windows machine for web development or to write blogs in blog.sadsumo.com

The environments that I am installing are:

Visual Studio Code#

follow the link above and download the latest installation. Use the default install settings.

NodeJS#

Download and install the latest. Docusaurus 2 requires 12.13.0 or above. Use the default install settings.

you can verify you have installed NodeJS by opening either a CMD prompt or a PowerShell console and issue the following command:

Verify node installed. Docusaurus 2 requires 12.13.0 or above
node -v # to check node version

note: you can also use the terminal in VS Code to verify Node and NPM installation.

NPM#

Installing NodeJS from above will also install NPM. you can verify you have installed NPM by opening either a CMD prompt or a PowerShell console and issue the following command:

Verify NPM installed.
npm -v # to check node version

git#

Installing Git in windows is simple but has a lot of steps, so we put those instructions in its own document here

That's it! You are ready to either develop web solutions using your machine. Only use your new powers for good!